Bung-faucet.



'A. A. Bowsnn.

' BUNG FAUCET- APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 23,1906.

920,908, Patented May 11, 1909.

munmm UNITED .srA-Tiis rgr nvir orrion I ALLEN A. BOWSER, OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO S. F. BOWSER & COMPANY,OF

FORI WAYNE, INDIANA, CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

BUNG-FAUGET.

Application filed June 23, 1906. Serial No. 323,012. 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLEN A. Bowsnn, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful'Improvements in Bung-Faucets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to improvementsin bung faucets and has for its primary object to provide an improved means for attaching faucets or nozzles to the bung holes of barrels or other vessels from which liquids are to be drawn.

To the attainment of these ends and the accomplishment of other new and useful objects as will appear, the invention consists in the features of novelty in the construction, combination and arrangement of the several parts, hereinafter more fully described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings, illustrating an exemplification of this invention, and in which i V Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view in elevation of my device; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view on line 22 of Fig. 1.

1 designates main frame and consists of a body portion and a laterally extending member 1. The body portion is formed with an intake 2, an inner chamber 3 and outlet or discharge orifice 4:. Intake 2 is surrounded by short downwardly extending flange 10 which enters the bung hole 12 of a barrel, a broken section of the wall or side of which is shown by 13 in Fig. 1. A valve or gate -5 controls opening between 2 and 3. l

6 is the valve stem preferably journaled and threaded in member 7 which is threaded into main frame or attached thereto by other convenient means closing the top ofchamher 3. A cap 8 forms with 7 packi ng chamber 9. Handle 15 or other convenient means mounted on stem 6 controls the valve.

In the body member I insert the hook bolt 16 the lower opening for which cuts into the intake 2 to permit the bolt and hook 16 formed on its lower end to enter the bung hole. I show this bolt and its corresponding hole rectangular in cross section in order to retain thehook portion in the proper position to engage the inside of that portion of the wall of a barrel or cask immediately surrounding the bung hole. The upper end of bolt 16 is threaded anda nut 17 inserted Specification of Letters Patent; i

Patented May 11, 1909.

thereon. This .nut be operated by a socket wrench or other convenient means.

i 1' 14:,is/a washerorgasketsurrounding the flange 10 and intake 2 and should be an elastic substance or composition not easily affected by oils or liquids to be handled:

Laterally extending member 1 is provided near its outward extremity with a set screw 18 threaded therein and adapted to bear against 13 and is provided with convenient means for operating as the common winged members shown.

In inserting my faucet the hook bolt should be protruded downwardly a suflicient distance to enable the hook to be readily in- ,serted under thewall ofthe barrel. The set screw should also be withdrawn so that its bearing portion is approximately flush with the lower edge of the laterally extending member. When the hook bolt is tightened on the gasket contact with main frame and barrel wall is formed on approximately one-half the gasket circumference which lies adjacent to the hook bolt. The contact is completed by forcing the outer end of the laterally extending member away from the barrel wall by means of the set screw which acting on. the contact of the hook bolt and wall of barrel as a fulcrum forces the end of the main frame opposite the laterally extending member in direct-ion of the barrel wall.

In order that the invention migl'it be fully understood the details of an embodiment thereof have been thus specifically described,

but I What I claim is 1. In a device'of the character described, the combination with a main body member provided with an inner chamber having an intake passage leading thereto provided with i pending flange surrounding the exterior end of the said intake passage, an attaching hook bolt adapted for insertion through the bung hole of the barrel, means on said main body member surrounding" the said pending flange adapted to cooperate with the wall of the barrel or cask to form a liquid proofjoint, and an integral branch on said main body member provided with means whereby the said: branch. may be forced apart from the cash or barrel wall thereby fornnng wlth the attaching hook bolt, as a fulcrum a liquid proof joining with the wall ()i a barrel or cask immediately surrounding the bung hole thereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specifi 'ation, in the presence oi? two subscribing Witnesses, on this 18 day of June A. D. 1906.

ALLEN A. llOlV S ER. lVitnesses \ViLLIA M A. Boson,

C. F. Hix'ramiune. 

